Knowledge has proven to be a dangeous thing in Iraq, but thus far the team has been lucky enough to be personally uneffected by their actions. Task Force 01132 is about to find out that some eldrich things may be better off unlearned. How will this change everything?
Find out as we continue Iconoclasts, a Delta Green campaign.
Starring:
Schroeder
Jeff
Daniel
Spencer
Jeffbot
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[00:00:00] Warning, this game's setting revolves around an active Middle East combat zone and contains references to extreme violence, graphic content and other mature themes.
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[00:00:30] Iconic Last, a campaign of whores, modern and ancient.
[00:01:00] The Jeff Bot episode came out this week, Jeff.
[00:01:16] Which Jeff Bot episode?
[00:01:17] The first Jeff Bot episode.
[00:01:19] If you haven't listened, Jeff, where is that board?
[00:01:22] You can take it back if you really want.
[00:01:23] I have the board.
[00:01:24] I don't have a mic.
[00:01:25] Oh, why can't you get your mic if you want one?
[00:01:27] No, I'm enjoying Jeff Bot.
[00:01:28] Jeff has started interrupting, but he was tired of recording on his computer because it sucks to edit.
[00:01:33] It's not a great mic.
[00:01:34] So now he's using AI that we have dubbed Jeff Bot, that is in control.
[00:01:39] I already like it more than chat GPT already.
[00:01:43] Because it's already made several sarcastic quips I believe directly at Schroeder in the first minute of the episode.
[00:01:49] Yes, you're for it.
[00:01:50] Well, I do.
[00:01:51] I have no idea.
[00:01:52] You were yourself.
[00:01:53] So he had to crank it the fuck up because I was not talking into the mic.
[00:01:57] I was going off on some tin foil hat conspiracy theory rant.
[00:02:01] Yeah.
[00:02:02] And like I must have hit record and was standing next to the computer yelling across the room,
[00:02:05] because I am clearly echoing.
[00:02:07] And like we finally wrap up after talking for like 10 minutes.
[00:02:11] And Schroeder goes, and you could cut all that out now.
[00:02:13] And it's like look at me.
[00:02:14] I am the captain now.
[00:02:16] Jeff Bot does his Jeff Bot news.
[00:02:17] That's good.
[00:02:18] That's really good.
[00:02:19] Nice.
[00:02:20] So I was just trying to do the nice thing again, you can just go that.
[00:02:26] Yeah, trying to try to say no.
[00:02:30] But yeah, he's like look at me.
[00:02:31] I am the captain now.
[00:02:34] Jeff Bot will not cut this.
[00:02:38] Katie say she wants me to put him in the show notes from here on out saying that Jeff
[00:02:42] Bot and the description is the arbiter of truth.
[00:02:45] Anyway.
[00:02:47] So it's been a while.
[00:02:51] I hate how every fucking episode we record is he's been a while.
[00:02:54] Yeah, that's fair.
[00:02:55] Because for the audience, it was last week.
[00:02:57] Yeah.
[00:02:58] I mean for us has been two and a half months, but for the audience, it was last week.
[00:03:02] Yeah, thanks.
[00:03:03] Was it before Thanksgiving?
[00:03:06] It was.
[00:03:07] I think so.
[00:03:08] Yeah.
[00:03:09] And for Spencer, it's been even longer because he wasn't here that episode.
[00:03:11] Yeah, that recording.
[00:03:12] Oh yeah, that's right.
[00:03:13] We met just before Christmas and didn't record a fucking thing.
[00:03:16] No, we just sat in talk for like four hours.
[00:03:18] Yeah, got way too drunk.
[00:03:20] That was fun.
[00:03:21] I learned that I like crack and rum that night.
[00:03:23] Yeah.
[00:03:24] That's what we're doing.
[00:03:26] I have similarly started to enjoy cracking rum because I really want to play pirate
[00:03:30] board.
[00:03:31] And so I bought that bottle going work on play pirate board.
[00:03:33] And we're going to have rum.
[00:03:34] I need to go buy another bottle because I've been drinking it copiously while working
[00:03:38] on work in the evenings.
[00:03:39] Nice.
[00:03:40] Anyway, that's why the rums always gone.
[00:03:42] Yeah, although I did find a band that sings pirate themed music.
[00:03:48] They talks about stealing all their rum.
[00:03:50] It's quite good.
[00:03:51] I'll send it around the band.
[00:03:53] What's the band called?
[00:03:54] Ails Storm is their name.
[00:03:55] That could be an Indianapolis on like April 20th or some shit.
[00:04:00] I'm like, yeah, of course they are.
[00:04:01] Yeah.
[00:04:02] If the tickets in the beer cheap, I'm there.
[00:04:05] No, like they just they they sing songs about what's the other one that they really
[00:04:10] got.
[00:04:11] I'm going about going down to Mexico for a donkey show and getting fucking wasted and eating
[00:04:15] a bunch of tacos.
[00:04:16] And I'm like, these guys just seem like they'd be fun to party with.
[00:04:19] Anyway, back to Iconoclasts.
[00:04:22] It is May 8th.
[00:04:23] Today Captain Dan arrives in Baghdad because even Hastings are on their way to London.
[00:04:27] They will arrive tomorrow.
[00:04:29] You've got some people training.
[00:04:31] You've got a contact with the NSA who's looking into Irene because you thought you needed
[00:04:36] leverage there.
[00:04:37] You continue to research.
[00:04:39] Oh, that's one of the things that I was going to do.
[00:04:40] Jeff brought up a point and I looked at something and I don't know that I ever made a role
[00:04:44] that was that would be important to you guys because you didn't quite go about it the
[00:04:47] way that I expected but I got into it and I probably should have credited you credited
[00:04:51] you with a role that is there because the the museum you have been relatively open and
[00:04:57] honest with the Baghdad Museum about the tablets and there's some back matter in here
[00:05:02] that I didn't necessarily credit for.
[00:05:05] So I made a role because you had asked before we started recording about if you had an
[00:05:10] idea about what you had in terms of wins unknown to a dad and I said no because you haven't
[00:05:15] met the research time but it suggests that the museum would be very interested in would
[00:05:20] help with some of the cataloging even if they're not doing all the direct translating.
[00:05:24] So there's a role I can credit with knowing you knowing what you do and do not have even
[00:05:28] if you don't have it fully translated.
[00:05:30] So when they arrive in London, you would have a good idea of what you do and do not have.
[00:05:35] So you do have that in your pocket.
[00:05:36] Cool.
[00:05:37] Nice.
[00:05:38] So if they can obtain staff cooperation, blah, blah, blah mechanics, it takes X number
[00:05:44] to complete the survey of the collection confirm its connections in terms of overall wins
[00:05:50] unknown to a dad and begin to deliver translations.
[00:05:53] You can collect photographs and translations.
[00:05:55] Obviously they're wanting to keep the tablets as much as possible at the Iraqi museum.
[00:06:00] They don't really want you guys going anywhere with them because they are significant
[00:06:02] and they're not going to be able to get the data.
[00:06:05] So I don't know if you'll have to fight them over that.
[00:06:07] We've kept most of them offside.
[00:06:08] That's right, maybe that's why I didn't credit you with that role.
[00:06:12] I forgot about that.
[00:06:13] Oh, that takes you back.
[00:06:14] Yeah, too late.
[00:06:15] Yeah, I said it.
[00:06:16] We had the one research assistant that was helping us.
[00:06:17] Right.
[00:06:18] It tells me that it takes a team to get that role.
[00:06:20] Yeah.
[00:06:21] And I know that we have some on site because we talked about offering that research.
[00:06:27] So yeah, you got research, research assistant.
[00:06:29] That's right.
[00:06:30] You are keeping them off site which is one of the reasons why maybe I didn't give
[00:06:32] you that role.
[00:06:33] But it does give me a time frame of how long it would take to figure that out.
[00:06:36] So you have some of that, but if you're not taking it at the museum, I can't give you
[00:06:40] all of it because you don't have a team.
[00:06:42] What you already did is just like Cody to give us something and just take it right.
[00:06:47] Fucking back.
[00:06:48] Cody Jeff just cut the part where he took it back away.
[00:06:51] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:06:52] A thorough survey requires a massive effort by dozens of experts as great as Captain Dan
[00:06:58] is. I don't know what I would qualify him as an archaeological expert.
[00:07:03] Nor 24 of them looks old today.
[00:07:06] I said, last time I checked dozens means at minimum 24.
[00:07:12] So anyway, that's where you're at.
[00:07:14] Captain Dan, the archaeological expert that he is has arrived in Baghdad and that's where
[00:07:19] we're at on May 8th.
[00:07:23] By now, I would really like our beanie to be looking into things that might have gone
[00:07:28] on in Mosul within the last couple of days.
[00:07:31] Okay, as in the sixth was the new moon.
[00:07:36] If something happened around the new moon, I'd like to know if that is actually significant.
[00:07:40] Yeah.
[00:07:41] Yeah, father or should have been the most active then.
[00:07:44] So scanning, seeing essentially, our beanie can be doing that.
[00:07:49] Okay.
[00:07:50] No role right now just just from I'm going to put in some notes that our beanie is looking
[00:07:56] into.
[00:07:57] Testing moon theory.
[00:07:58] I'm going to write that down on my notes and forget what a light theory actually light.
[00:08:03] Testing light theory.
[00:08:05] Do we want to start while he's doing that building our infiltration team in Mosul?
[00:08:10] Like, actually go ahead and make a role just let me know if your pass or fail pass.
[00:08:14] And what hour beanie pass?
[00:08:16] What is it again?
[00:08:17] Yeah, did we we should any ticks that need to go up?
[00:08:20] Oh yeah, as you check marks.
[00:08:22] Good call.
[00:08:23] D4 minus one.
[00:08:24] Yes.
[00:08:25] So I'm going to, um, I'm going to note the pass.
[00:08:30] We'll get to it a little bit.
[00:08:31] Were you the one that had one who you?
[00:08:33] I don't know.
[00:08:34] These don't look like ticks.
[00:08:35] These look like pluses.
[00:08:36] Those are from training.
[00:08:38] There was some of that.
[00:08:39] Yes.
[00:08:40] That it's marked out and then it's circle M.
[00:08:42] Yeah, in circle 40.
[00:08:44] Inside Mosul.
[00:08:45] Okay.
[00:08:46] Gotcha.
[00:08:47] Did some train or something.
[00:08:48] Wasn't like human or something like that?
[00:08:51] Human and navigate.
[00:08:52] Yep.
[00:08:54] So we're sending Warner, Captain Dan, Jennifer and who else into Mosul?
[00:09:00] I think it's the only people that are available.
[00:09:03] Nassar.
[00:09:04] Nassar.
[00:09:05] You should go four people.
[00:09:07] It's reasonable to smuggle in.
[00:09:08] Yeah, I think that's a good any more.
[00:09:10] You draw too much attention.
[00:09:11] Mm hmm.
[00:09:12] I would assume white lady, black lady, academic and tech guy should probably not.
[00:09:19] So that makes sense.
[00:09:20] Yep.
[00:09:21] Now the only issue.
[00:09:22] If Olson doesn't go, how are we going to get an elder sign in there?
[00:09:25] Yeah.
[00:09:26] Well, we don't know how to use it anyway.
[00:09:28] Yeah.
[00:09:29] We don't even know if it's actually the key too.
[00:09:31] We don't.
[00:09:32] He said that it makes a better was the better flat jacket than a no.
[00:09:37] No, makes a piss poor flat jacket.
[00:09:38] Piss poor flat jacket.
[00:09:39] It's a great seal for a door.
[00:09:41] I believe.
[00:09:42] Okay.
[00:09:42] It makes for a piss poor flat jacket.
[00:09:43] Elder sign patches were not a thing for our play pests.
[00:09:47] Sadly enough.
[00:09:49] I still like the idea carving it into the tips of bullets.
[00:09:52] But banishing rounds.
[00:09:54] There's holy water.
[00:09:58] But yeah, how are we going to figure out what the elder sign actually does with this
[00:10:03] shit?
[00:10:05] I think this kind of the way I feel about this game is that this is the kind of thing
[00:10:08] we get to find out one way and that's the hard way.
[00:10:11] It's like my wrong about that.
[00:10:13] Well when teaching it or trying to teach it, what did Mary expend?
[00:10:18] Well power.
[00:10:19] Yeah, I run it down from 13 to 11.
[00:10:22] Okay.
[00:10:23] Well power.
[00:10:24] That's been days.
[00:10:25] Yeah, well power comes back.
[00:10:26] Oh, you should go back up.
[00:10:27] Yeah.
[00:10:28] Comes back up with bed rest.
[00:10:29] Yeah.
[00:10:30] It's like a D6 per day or something like that.
[00:10:34] I don't know if it's that much.
[00:10:36] I don't remember.
[00:10:37] I don't know.
[00:10:38] I know it was a dice roll.
[00:10:39] I'll look it up.
[00:10:40] And all she really learned was that she could put more into it.
[00:10:44] What it did if anything was not determined to make a game a little bit when he said put
[00:10:48] more into it, was it like you could expend more willpower?
[00:10:50] Yes.
[00:10:51] Okay.
[00:10:52] It was tapping into something and she realized that she could give it more of.
[00:10:56] Yes.
[00:10:57] Jeff is correct.
[00:10:58] One D6 after you get a full night sleep.
[00:11:02] Remind me the mechanics of willpower.
[00:11:05] Is there a certain threshold below you drop and you have problems or if you go to zero,
[00:11:09] you're dead or what how does that work?
[00:11:11] No, it's just it's exhaustion.
[00:11:12] It's probably unconscious.
[00:11:13] Okay.
[00:11:15] And an agent whose willpower hits one or two has an emotional breakdown.
[00:11:19] The agent suffers a minus 20 penalty to all actions until it arises above two.
[00:11:25] An agent whose willpower hits zero collapses completely and capacitated and perhaps unconscious.
[00:11:30] The handler controls your agent until willpower returns to one or higher.
[00:11:33] Any agent with zero willpower cannot succeed at any tests, including sand tests human vegetable.
[00:11:39] Gotcha.
[00:11:41] So yes, you couldn't put more into these characters.
[00:11:44] So I'll have magic power because I've had a character hit zero whether it was magic power.
[00:11:50] Wouldn't we talk about when or when I passed out during the chicken ritual?
[00:11:53] Oh, that was called through though.
[00:11:55] Yeah.
[00:11:56] And so I was just saying that these characters are magic points.
[00:11:58] Magic points.
[00:11:59] Yeah.
[00:12:00] You lose consciousness at zero, I believe.
[00:12:02] Sacrificing chickens to raise this thing to fight another thing and we couldn't fuck
[00:12:06] anything up and not realizing it that the ritual casting took magic points from your
[00:12:11] characters.
[00:12:12] Please tell me your name was Colonel Sanders.
[00:12:15] No, but yeah, my characters and my character's max magic point was only four, which is the
[00:12:22] amount that it took from you.
[00:12:23] So somebody had like made a critical success like Dex checked to catch the chicken or whatever.
[00:12:29] Yeah.
[00:12:30] Spice is blood.
[00:12:32] Seasoning is more blood.
[00:12:33] I'm so well with the call.
[00:12:35] Well, the best part.
[00:12:38] From my creepy storytelling, I'm not here for my understanding of rules or narrative
[00:12:42] ever.
[00:12:43] The best part about all of this is I just listened to like I don't ever heard of Dan
[00:12:46] Cummins, he's a comedian, but he's got a podcast called Time Suck and he just goes into
[00:12:51] all different kinds of things from cults to murders to just like biographies of crazy,
[00:12:55] like awesome people.
[00:12:56] And he did the life story of Colonel Sanders and I'll listen to it like this week.
[00:13:00] And then all of a sudden Colonel Sanders comes up.
[00:13:03] So there's, there's where you're at.
[00:13:05] Harlem Sanders.
[00:13:07] So what do we need to do mechanically from here?
[00:13:11] So I think we have our team.
[00:13:12] We'll be big damn heroes when the game.
[00:13:15] Cool.
[00:13:16] So are we just going to drive in town and be like, I got papers or are we coming up with
[00:13:22] something better?
[00:13:23] I think if the fishmurgo have not gotten back to us, that's about how long has it been
[00:13:27] to you spoken with them last?
[00:13:29] Do you have a written down yesterday?
[00:13:31] Yeah.
[00:13:32] Let's say they were going to work on it and everybody's training right now anyway.
[00:13:35] Yeah.
[00:13:36] So we just let days roll.
[00:13:37] Oh, we've got London.
[00:13:38] London.
[00:13:39] Yeah.
[00:13:40] I'm still I think about you.
[00:13:44] How long before we get to London tomorrow?
[00:13:47] We can monitor again outside of Mosul in the meantime.
[00:13:49] Yep.
[00:13:50] And whatever you guys are doing back then, I don't know that there's much.
[00:13:53] Yeah, if it help out these is we think Mary should try some more food.
[00:13:57] You should then teach Captain Dan the Elder sign.
[00:13:59] Yeah, that would be good.
[00:14:00] Yeah, especially so what are you make one?
[00:14:03] Didn't we determine that we could not teach it though?
[00:14:05] No, we determined that she didn't learn it.
[00:14:07] Oh, good.
[00:14:08] We determined that it couldn't be taught.
[00:14:10] We know it can be taught because it was taught to you by a cowboy.
[00:14:13] Yeah, but you don't know if he gave you magic, you know what I mean?
[00:14:16] You still haven't even tried it.
[00:14:17] He could have fed you a line of bullshit.
[00:14:19] Yeah.
[00:14:20] Oh, I tried it.
[00:14:21] You tried to teach it to somebody or did you try and make it?
[00:14:23] It's like in the first office.
[00:14:25] It's all who's wearing ballistic armor.
[00:14:27] Just stand over there Pete.
[00:14:28] Let me shoot at you.
[00:14:29] Oh, that work.
[00:14:31] Let me go up in caliber.
[00:14:32] Although we did not summon any beasties so that that was a positive thing.
[00:14:37] He just touched you the glow stick ritual.
[00:14:42] Everything's going to be over.
[00:14:44] I cast EDC.
[00:14:45] Yeah, you guys let me know otherwise I can roll some days on by.
[00:14:51] Roll it.
[00:14:52] Okay, what do we need to do for Olsen to train Captain Dan?
[00:14:55] Same thing we did before.
[00:14:57] I don't remember what it was.
[00:14:58] I don't know why they're gonna look at the book and hope that I remember what we did
[00:15:01] last time.
[00:15:02] We drew it.
[00:15:03] That sounds like a fun spill on something.
[00:15:05] What was his name?
[00:15:10] No, I inscribed it in the air.
[00:15:12] That's what we did.
[00:15:13] Yeah, we didn't we didn't put it on anything when I was trying to teach it to.
[00:15:19] I just inscribed it in the air was the dark tower series right?
[00:15:22] Well, the stuff.
[00:15:23] The things yeah.
[00:15:24] Yeah, wow that's true.
[00:15:25] Yeah, I think we should try putting it on something this time.
[00:15:28] Maybe the museum's got some type of insignificant containing vessel or some kind that we can
[00:15:33] use.
[00:15:34] It's on like a vessel or anything beyond anything.
[00:15:38] Put it on one of the chests that has to have lots in it.
[00:15:42] See if it opens up into a void.
[00:15:43] Well, that part of the book is gone.
[00:15:46] Oh no, I see what you mean.
[00:15:50] Yes, do it on a container to see if it does.
[00:15:53] It hasn't any dimension like that.
[00:15:55] Yeah, I do see what you mean.
[00:15:57] Yes, bioplastic tone on the way and stop by local Walmart.
[00:16:00] There you go.
[00:16:01] I believe that you just gestured in the air before.
[00:16:05] Yes, yes.
[00:16:06] I only create my pocket dimensions in Tupperware brand Tupperware.
[00:16:10] Make sure you put your demons.
[00:16:13] Oh man.
[00:16:16] So what was your preference?
[00:16:18] The olive green or the bright orange Tupperware?
[00:16:23] Bright orange all day after you agree.
[00:16:26] So what are you going to inscribe this on?
[00:16:29] What's the plan?
[00:16:30] I like that.
[00:16:31] Here for it as long as we get sponsored by rubber.
[00:16:35] That's it.
[00:16:36] All right, I placed your brand name here.
[00:16:42] I only want to be sponsored by obscure things that no longer have relevance or that is
[00:16:49] sobered.
[00:16:50] Can we be sponsored by like, I don't know, fucking Quaker Oats.
[00:16:52] Hey, orville Red and Bacher popcorn.
[00:16:54] There you go.
[00:16:55] It's relevant my life chimney sweeps.
[00:16:58] Oh, fuck me.
[00:17:00] It's fucking random local businesses pretty.
[00:17:03] So Olsen knows it right?
[00:17:05] What is sponsored by Dazs Guns?
[00:17:09] Fuck that.
[00:17:10] I just like selling guns.
[00:17:13] It'd be perfect for iconic class.
[00:17:16] They really would.
[00:17:17] Yeah.
[00:17:18] Don't be green in general, man.
[00:17:19] Yeah.
[00:17:20] Like, not just because of the guns.
[00:17:22] That dude was fucking creepy.
[00:17:25] We should just make fake like sponsored ads and put them in our shows.
[00:17:29] They used to do that back when Dustin used to do it, but really good actually.
[00:17:33] We should just know.
[00:17:34] Oh yeah, I forgot about those.
[00:17:36] Dustin's by here, sell here and he just said we sell whiz bangs and flame and all my
[00:17:40] rides.
[00:17:41] You know, roadkill and yeah, he used to put in ads.
[00:17:44] Yeah.
[00:17:45] All red in the voice of Jeff.
[00:17:47] I just love to sell guns.
[00:17:52] Or it should be like ads for cults.
[00:17:54] If anyone is listening who is not in the Hoosier state and does not know Don's guns,
[00:17:59] 100% look up old ads for the gun shop Don's guns in Indianapolis.
[00:18:06] I don't care about making money.
[00:18:08] I just love to sell guns.
[00:18:11] Any wig your little sister's fingers very creepily.
[00:18:13] Yeah.
[00:18:14] So I told one of the comic guys that I that I talked to quite frequently.
[00:18:18] I want him to start doing that because he sells comics like very cheap.
[00:18:22] That's kind of his stick.
[00:18:24] And he's like, I just love selling comics.
[00:18:26] I'm like bro, bro watch this adopt this character.
[00:18:30] Because that's thing he'll start off the show and be like, yeah, this comic is like,
[00:18:34] says this is 10 bucks.
[00:18:35] That's not 10 bucks.
[00:18:36] That's five bucks.
[00:18:37] And then like Spencer last 20 minutes later, he's like, what did I say that was four bucks?
[00:18:40] It's four bucks.
[00:18:41] Like you just, you know what?
[00:18:42] Here, I'll just throw it in with this other comic for five bucks.
[00:18:45] It's fine because he has so many of me doesn't care.
[00:18:48] What is Olsen going to attempt to inscribe the elder son of a dare Lord?
[00:18:54] What tool is she going to use?
[00:18:55] Well, we need something portable right.
[00:18:57] We'll be able to carry it.
[00:18:58] Yep.
[00:18:59] I would say like a, a yeti cooler.
[00:19:02] Thermus.
[00:19:04] The other using a thermos right now.
[00:19:06] It's coming back around.
[00:19:10] This coffee is still hot.
[00:19:12] 48 days later.
[00:19:16] This eldritch horror is still a part of that's literally a joke that you had talked about
[00:19:21] putting using the thermos in this game.
[00:19:23] Oh really?
[00:19:24] Yeah.
[00:19:25] Katie brought it up actually she said it should be a t-shirt.
[00:19:28] Somebody said something about how you can't just wrap an, uh, an eldritch being with 10 foil or something.
[00:19:34] I don't know what it was, but it is.
[00:19:35] You can't, you can't just 10 foil hat situation.
[00:19:38] He can just carve the shit in 10 foil.
[00:19:39] So you have any suggestions over there?
[00:19:40] I've been giving you time to think.
[00:19:43] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[00:19:44] Let's, let's think about this.
[00:19:45] I was hoping someone would.
[00:19:46] The M4A was reflective because of light.
[00:19:49] That was a vital part of the M4A.
[00:19:51] So we need something reflective.
[00:19:53] Okay, wait, how is it reflected?
[00:19:55] It was bronze and the light was actually what inhibited it.
[00:19:59] So honestly like shiny like a stainless, like a stainless steel,
[00:20:03] like a stainless steel grower literally.
[00:20:06] I mean, like that's, it doesn't need to literally be a grower, but it just needs to be something
[00:20:10] that we can, it's large enough that we can carry that's lightweight and reflective exactly like that without the water.
[00:20:17] So we're going to search the museum for that.
[00:20:19] I imagine there's a more kitten bagdad that you could go or purchase it somewhere.
[00:20:23] You could go purchase something.
[00:20:24] I, we can hand wave that.
[00:20:26] It isn't in for a shaped reflective material.
[00:20:31] It's a, he wants to sell you this weird golden cube as well.
[00:20:37] Awesome.
[00:20:38] Fucking pin head.
[00:20:39] Okay.
[00:20:40] So Captain Dan is going to observe this situation and it's have to learn.
[00:20:44] Yes.
[00:20:44] Somebody like to play Captain Dan.
[00:20:46] I got him.
[00:20:47] See a boy role well.
[00:20:49] Previously, I don't remember who Mary was trying to taste things.
[00:20:53] Yeah, there had been like a conversation that talked about it.
[00:20:56] You're just going to what are you going to do?
[00:20:58] No, I'll try to explain it to the best of my knowledge to Captain Dan first.
[00:21:03] No, it's not just going to be a, hey, look at this.
[00:21:08] What do you see here?
[00:21:11] Hold my bear.
[00:21:13] What's a star on it?
[00:21:15] Now, I really want to play like a, like Kentucky moon shiners dealing with Eldritch horrors.
[00:21:22] It's, I'm sure that's something about the Appalachia.
[00:21:25] I was literally going to say the Appalachian wilderness is the old gods of Appalachia.
[00:21:29] Yeah, thank you.
[00:21:30] You know, I just like, no, I just like I want to do a one shot where like moon shiners come across the me go or something.
[00:21:37] I don't know.
[00:21:38] Yes.
[00:21:39] Billy Bob.
[00:21:39] What's that over there?
[00:21:40] She's fine.
[00:21:42] The guys from the future.
[00:21:44] No, the me go or the bugs that we ran into and yeah, tune.
[00:21:47] You were not, no, you were.
[00:21:50] It was the one that Lucas ran harvest.
[00:21:52] Yeah, yeah, ego are bug light creatures.
[00:21:54] Oh, no, I do the ones who like you are thinking of the ones who had the ancient culture in Antarctic.
[00:22:03] I think time travelers.
[00:22:05] Yeah, lightning guns in the predators.
[00:22:08] Fuck, I can't think of the air right.
[00:22:09] The Yif that sounds right.
[00:22:11] I don't know.
[00:22:17] Mary, give me an int by five.
[00:22:22] Not five five under 75.
[00:22:24] Nice.
[00:22:25] So you got this bottle.
[00:22:26] You she's electronics.
[00:22:29] So your knee.
[00:22:29] Yeah.
[00:22:31] Yep, she has.
[00:22:34] She's good at singing electronics.
[00:22:39] I think she's got human surveillance surveillance.
[00:22:41] What was the vagus something specific for her?
[00:22:44] I'm trying to find it.
[00:22:45] Oh, it's just second.
[00:22:47] I I MSI catchers you begin speaking to major Dan and captain.
[00:22:52] Sorry, major man.
[00:22:54] Captain.
[00:22:55] Captain Dan in your.
[00:22:58] It starts off very like think about trying to explain how a spell works or something like this.
[00:23:03] Like like there's no frame of reference.
[00:23:05] Right.
[00:23:06] Okay.
[00:23:06] And so you try and sort of objectively talk about it.
[00:23:10] You try and start to abstractly talk about it.
[00:23:13] And then it's really interesting is Mary starts to use a lot of like computer jargon
[00:23:19] and it starts to it starts to sort of swim in her brain a little bit.
[00:23:24] I don't know that Captain Dan has any expertise in any of that,
[00:23:28] but something clicks with you in that it's a language that you understand.
[00:23:33] It's a language you're familiar with.
[00:23:34] It's a language you're worth you you're used to building or creating or
[00:23:39] populating.
[00:23:40] When you start explaining it in terminology,
[00:23:43] that's like SQL or like I don't know.
[00:23:46] Like programming now, boys.
[00:23:48] Like it makes sense to you.
[00:23:49] You were at first you're trying to describe it like an artist like you draw a line
[00:23:53] and you draw a box.
[00:23:53] But as you start to think about it, you're like no, it's like it strings of code with a flow.
[00:23:57] I don't know if that makes fuck all sense to Captain Dan.
[00:24:00] No, but I like that.
[00:24:02] That's kind of cool.
[00:24:03] Like you in call and there's a elder sign defined variable, father of war.
[00:24:09] There's something there though.
[00:24:12] It's something clicks in this discussion.
[00:24:14] You guys are having leading up to it.
[00:24:16] Something clicks.
[00:24:17] You're not sure what, but that's what you get out of it.
[00:24:19] Captain Dan just grunt.
[00:24:21] No, I'm Jeff is imagining Olsen creating a digital trap for this thing.
[00:24:27] But I'm not sure how that would work.
[00:24:30] Can you imagine if that entity you had access to the internet?
[00:24:33] Is this trapped in a device and then all of a sudden?
[00:24:36] Oh shit, worse click may ever.
[00:24:39] The whole world's a vector now.
[00:24:43] So yeah, there's the you all have to stop her because she's getting a little afraid.
[00:24:48] It just makes so much sense when you explain it as it doesn't necessarily have to be code
[00:24:53] because I don't know necessarily that I read her background as code.
[00:24:56] But if you do that, that would work.
[00:24:58] But even just pathways and electronics and the flow of electricity and sound waves.
[00:25:03] So she getting any revelation from this or does she need to like sit down and play with it?
[00:25:07] Or does she made any conclusions?
[00:25:09] Or if you keep asking questions like that, he's gonna make your rules.
[00:25:13] No, no.
[00:25:15] Don't give them any ideas.
[00:25:16] I'll roll it.
[00:25:17] Not not yet sitting down and playing with it thinking about it.
[00:25:20] I want you, you know, you guys interact as characters.
[00:25:23] I might give you some more roles but I was gonna give you that much from there.
[00:25:26] Okay.
[00:25:27] So I'm presuming you two were talking it out before you can talk it out as the two characters.
[00:25:31] So if there's more that you want to discuss on that avenue.
[00:25:33] But I think that those are great lines of inquiry.
[00:25:35] Is there an electronic device?
[00:25:37] Why does it make sense to you as a sense of code or waveform or flow of electricity?
[00:25:42] Why why does it?
[00:25:43] Why does that help?
[00:25:44] Can I see that?
[00:25:45] Yep.
[00:25:47] There's bottle of waters in the back, probably one of those.
[00:25:51] Lots pop.
[00:25:52] Decent amount of beer, some gatorades and some caprisons.
[00:25:55] Thanks sir.
[00:25:56] My son is obsessed with the dollar bills you keep putting in this.
[00:25:58] Those are my notes on the bag of that.
[00:26:00] Yeah.
[00:26:01] That term should be on there somewhere.
[00:26:03] I think for those shackles, maybe.
[00:26:05] I forgot those were.
[00:26:06] No.
[00:26:09] Must have been my other notes.
[00:26:11] There's nothing on here about the shagash stuff.
[00:26:15] Very nice to slow.
[00:26:17] Code, signal.
[00:26:18] It's not just code, it's electronics.
[00:26:22] It's because what you said, communication.
[00:26:25] She has craft electronics.
[00:26:29] All right.
[00:26:30] So if it's I wonder if she did try and craft something that she knew how to make
[00:26:34] if she'd be able to build that into it?
[00:26:36] We've been assuming that this elder sign does something to the father of war.
[00:26:41] What if instead of doing something to the father where it's telling something to the father of war?
[00:26:46] I mean, the only thing I assume that it was doing to the father of war was creating a barrier.
[00:26:51] Right.
[00:26:52] But what if it's not doing that?
[00:26:54] What if it's not actually affecting him and he's simply reading it or it?
[00:26:59] Whatever it is.
[00:27:00] How do you mean so we're thinking put it on a lid and trap him and it seals him.
[00:27:06] So perhaps that's not what seals him.
[00:27:09] Perhaps it's his it's its fear of what that represents and what that says to him.
[00:27:14] I think I think her revelation right now was that we've been looking at it wrong.
[00:27:20] Okay.
[00:27:21] We thought it was this implement of power of something that we could use as a weapon when in fact
[00:27:26] it's just a relation to something else that's going to prevent.
[00:27:29] So I still know how we can use that but well, I think you're going down the right path.
[00:27:33] And I'm thinking in terms of game mechanics, can he make an in-roll to draw conclusions?
[00:27:40] Yeah.
[00:27:41] I think if you guys go along far enough then yeah, I would give some more.
[00:27:44] But I just like this is an interesting path and I think going down this path of it's basically like you're saying
[00:27:51] it's the creature's interpretation of that symbol not necessarily the symbol inherently affecting the creature.
[00:27:56] Right.
[00:27:57] Okay.
[00:27:58] It's what the symbol represents.
[00:27:59] Yeah.
[00:28:00] Going down that same path, what if we're thinking about the M4 in the wrong way?
[00:28:03] This wasn't met.
[00:28:04] What if this wasn't one whole the lid, the seal and the M4 were not two pieces of the same thing?
[00:28:11] Right.
[00:28:12] What if the M4 was its own thing and this seal was just stuck in the top him talking at the beginning of the game about Genies.
[00:28:20] The genies lamp is the genies lamp.
[00:28:22] Yeah.
[00:28:23] What if you could steal the genie in?
[00:28:25] Did anything happen with the buried in the bunker?
[00:28:28] No, no, no.
[00:28:29] The thing that we were that we were inscribing on or have we done it?
[00:28:32] No, you were having the conversation.
[00:28:34] Okay.
[00:28:35] We was just talking about it.
[00:28:36] Yeah.
[00:28:37] I think that so the first conversation like I said when you tried to teach it Hastings was very much here's this, here's this, here's this.
[00:28:43] I'm going to kind of draw it whatever and then you kind of did it and you kind of made some lines in the air and then it did something.
[00:28:50] But now you realize that didn't work.
[00:28:52] So now you're trying to maybe you and you and Dan are having a bag of forth.
[00:28:55] No, no, no, I don't understand.
[00:28:56] What does it mean?
[00:28:57] What does it do the same sort of shit you're talking about right now and the most efficient way that you could explain it was in a more a language you can interpret in that was more malleable maybe more functional
[00:29:10] more that's just how you were able to describe it.
[00:29:13] Now that doesn't mean fuck all the cap and Dan understood it.
[00:29:16] But I'm trying to think of the way to be equated think about almost like a medium that you know how to work in.
[00:29:21] A philosophical a philosophical argument somebody goes off on a rant and begins making conclusions and they stashed up their way through it.
[00:29:28] It was a way for you to process the information maybe that just means it's how you are interpreting something that is uninterpretable or maybe there's something more to that fundamentally mechanically ideologically religiously.
[00:29:44] The world was built on less so yes, so no I've actually let you try anything you went out and bought a jar.
[00:29:50] A reflective jar. A reflective jar.
[00:29:52] A reflective jar.
[00:29:53] And a weird cube.
[00:29:54] So yeah, if you want to go further, you can I didn't want to put you anywhere but I wanted to give you a roll to like now you're thinking about it some more and that's how you're able to begin to interpret it.
[00:30:05] Like I said, the four of you playing back and forth are just the arguments that the two characters are having but discussing it.
[00:30:10] So ask Olson if you were thinking about this like a Faraday cage, how would you make it?
[00:30:15] I think the I think we're already there with a reflective surface is a Faraday cage is about reflecting the signals back on it so I think I think it's two parts right.
[00:30:25] We know that what it's affected by an R realm as light.
[00:30:29] What it's affected by elsewhere is this elder sign represented by this elder sign.
[00:30:34] Right, like the the hyper geometry stuff is supposed to be like not from here.
[00:30:40] It's not it's science that we don't have any way of perceiving how it works right.
[00:30:45] What?
[00:30:48] No, I just do either your characters have a natural.
[00:30:50] I don't think they do some of the characters do know I don't think Olson or a natural where zero.
[00:30:57] No, Hastings I know how I believe it's Hastings and Landry have on it and you can see.
[00:31:02] Oh really?
[00:31:03] I attend both of them.
[00:31:05] Yeah, what that means is that you you've seen this shit in action before and have some understanding of it.
[00:31:10] The two characters currently having this conversation.
[00:31:12] I don't fuck all what's going on right.
[00:31:15] They have the explanation of this is what Sloan said it is.
[00:31:19] Right, which is a good point to bring up because hyper geometry is not what Sloan said.
[00:31:25] No, no, that's what Gwen said.
[00:31:27] Right.
[00:31:28] So something to consider as well is the elder sign what the program says it is right or is it what Sloan says it is?
[00:31:36] And your understanding of it would be through Sloan's lens.
[00:31:40] Correct.
[00:31:41] Yes.
[00:31:42] And the thing is is that Sloan gave it to you as a tool as a resource.
[00:31:46] The program treated it as a vector.
[00:31:49] I mean, it was in a fucking locked case that you had to memorize the code for.
[00:31:52] Yeah.
[00:31:53] So take that as you will.
[00:31:55] Is it a good thing?
[00:31:56] Is it a bad thing?
[00:31:57] Does it call these things?
[00:31:58] Does it banish these things?
[00:31:59] Does it harm these things?
[00:32:00] Is it a stop sign?
[00:32:01] Is it a go sign?
[00:32:02] Who fucking knows?
[00:32:03] All I know is it's pretty much all we got so to your question.
[00:32:07] Yeah, because you're Greek.
[00:32:09] Which question?
[00:32:10] You're not wrong, but I rolled the two so I went up one.
[00:32:14] Hey.
[00:32:15] How would I use it to make a fair day cage?
[00:32:19] Yeah.
[00:32:20] I love how you became like at New York.
[00:32:21] I would replicate what as much as I could.
[00:32:25] You would replicate it as much as I could to encapsulate and enclose space.
[00:32:29] And I would like the shit out of it.
[00:32:31] Right.
[00:32:32] But I'm asked, I want to ask Olson that question to see if there's some kind of mechanical correlation between her craft and her
[00:32:39] and her sickened and her computer science or whatever to maybe give you some kind of a boost on whatever skill you're about to run.
[00:32:47] Unless there's something that she's learned that I don't know about, like I can't translate its physical presence in our world to something digital.
[00:32:55] Right.
[00:32:56] But there's something about Sloan just kind of drew a vaguely star shaped thing in the air with his finger.
[00:33:03] There's thinking about it not so much as a symbol, but a circuit, a signal, a three-dimensional shape, a diagram.
[00:33:12] It makes more sense to you that way.
[00:33:15] The way that the light flows in it, the way that the pet, because you feel something, right?
[00:33:19] Like you feel something from you go into this.
[00:33:23] Like it's being birthed.
[00:33:24] And what it makes sense to you conceptually is...
[00:33:28] Not a two-dimensional thing.
[00:33:30] It's not just something that you write down.
[00:33:32] It's more solid than that.
[00:33:34] It's not like the fancy S that people did when they were in school in the 90s and then no one does now.
[00:33:40] So side, so side, let's go.
[00:33:42] I'm talking about that S.
[00:33:43] Okay.
[00:33:44] He's talking about the one where you drew.
[00:33:45] You do the shitty lines and it made the big weird looking S.
[00:33:48] You drew?
[00:33:49] Yeah.
[00:33:50] It's a Spencer bro.
[00:33:51] Of course.
[00:33:52] In this two.
[00:33:53] But yeah, so I mean like thinking about it as a wiring diagram.
[00:33:57] Thinking about it as a...
[00:33:58] Is it slow of electricity from positive to negative?
[00:34:01] Part of a hole.
[00:34:02] Huh?
[00:34:03] Something as a part of a hole.
[00:34:04] As in something's missing?
[00:34:05] No, more is drawing a complete circuit.
[00:34:07] A flow of electricity.
[00:34:08] A pathway from positive to negative.
[00:34:11] Conduit.
[00:34:12] Conduit's not a bad word.
[00:34:13] So yeah, thinking about it as maybe not necessarily as a fair-a-day cage, but as a state change.
[00:34:19] Something that's slow of electricity.
[00:34:20] Yeah.
[00:34:21] So the thing that gets the motherfucker from here into there, but then how do we keep the motherfucker
[00:34:26] when it's in there?
[00:34:27] How do we keep it in there?
[00:34:28] Well, if it's a state change, we turn it on and then we turn it off.
[00:34:31] That's the only two options we got.
[00:34:33] Yeah.
[00:34:34] So all ones and zeros everybody.
[00:34:36] It is all ones and zeros.
[00:34:37] That's all we got.
[00:34:38] Yeah.
[00:34:39] I mean, what do you want to do?
[00:34:41] We got to inscribe?
[00:34:42] Let's do it.
[00:34:43] Gotta have experimentation.
[00:34:44] We got experiment and scribe.
[00:34:47] We got a character we can spare.
[00:34:49] Oh, we can't spare.
[00:34:50] Mario.
[00:34:51] We can't spare the only one of us that can do it.
[00:34:55] Come on, Captain Deng.
[00:34:56] Get on the list.
[00:34:57] This is the whole point of what we're trying to do.
[00:35:00] So the last time she did this, it kind of fizzled.
[00:35:03] So I want to try whatever I did last time, double as far as exertion wise.
[00:35:09] Okay.
[00:35:10] Let's hope this thing is exponential and growth instead of the shit happening.
[00:35:14] Oh, sorry.
[00:35:15] You seem to just go like a lemon.
[00:35:19] His nose starts bleeding.
[00:35:21] It turns into fucking Captain Pike.
[00:35:25] You can only beat or beat beat.
[00:35:28] So what do you what do you mechanically do it?
[00:35:31] Set the scene for me.
[00:35:33] Where are you guys at?
[00:35:34] How big is the base that we found?
[00:35:36] How big you want us to be?
[00:35:37] You bought it.
[00:35:38] What do you think?
[00:35:39] I mean, something reasonable.
[00:35:40] You'd be able to buy it a market, right?
[00:35:41] So like flower pot size?
[00:35:42] Yeah, sure.
[00:35:43] And sometimes not something that's going to weigh us down or make her a life starter.
[00:35:47] Yeah, you have it like an urn.
[00:35:48] Just with the lid.
[00:35:49] Sure.
[00:35:50] That's reflective.
[00:35:51] Check out it.
[00:35:52] Okay.
[00:35:53] You are aware.
[00:35:54] The two of you are aware.
[00:35:55] Probably back in the museum now, aren't we?
[00:35:56] We had a location offside.
[00:35:57] Oh, that's right.
[00:35:58] Okay.
[00:35:59] So let's be there with the rest of the tablets to them.
[00:36:00] Yep.
[00:36:01] Okay.
[00:36:02] And what do you do on the original for how was the elder sign?
[00:36:06] In the lib.
[00:36:07] Yeah.
[00:36:08] Well, I know it was on the lib, but how was it in grave?
[00:36:10] Was it painted?
[00:36:11] I think it was carved.
[00:36:12] Let me look at the description.
[00:36:13] And I think it was on the inside.
[00:36:15] It makes sense.
[00:36:16] He would need to see it.
[00:36:18] I wonder if, this is a weird thought.
[00:36:21] But you know, when you look down inside of it all you saw was black, right?
[00:36:24] But what if from the other side looking at it, all it did was like a focused light beam
[00:36:29] of energy generated essentially straight from that thing that's just cast out into the void?
[00:36:33] So he couldn't approach the out.
[00:36:35] I now want an elder sign care bear.
[00:36:38] Yeah, me too.
[00:36:39] Just.
[00:36:40] Yeah.
[00:36:41] Your hands on your hips thrusting your, uh, your gut out but also, you know, just imagine
[00:36:48] you're dick hanging in the window.
[00:36:49] You thrust up.
[00:36:50] Yes.
[00:36:51] Elder sign.
[00:36:52] Oh, I saw was killing.
[00:36:53] Oh, that's good.
[00:36:54] I think that's probably right.
[00:36:55] Yeah.
[00:36:56] It's just a fucking spotlight.
[00:36:58] So there was a bronze stopper and on the inside of the stopper it says, uh, on the interior
[00:37:04] surfaces, a strange symbol that draws the eye.
[00:37:06] The quote is, is that Gwen says that glyph is a two-dimensional representation of a higher
[00:37:11] dimension mathematical construct.
[00:37:12] Our experience has demonstrated that it can damage or repel certain and human intelligences.
[00:37:17] This formula also disrupts manipulations of time space.
[00:37:19] It makes sure that things that are outside all this stay that way.
[00:37:23] Other versions may exist.
[00:37:24] They are potent but only if deployed properly.
[00:37:26] He talks about certain modes of mathematics, a deal with higher dimensions.
[00:37:30] Um, hypergeometry.
[00:37:31] Hypergeometry can bypass physics but there's a price when we don't pay unless we're out
[00:37:35] of options.
[00:37:36] Sloan says hypergeometry, it's magic, the real stuff.
[00:37:38] We call it the Elder sign.
[00:37:39] It makes an excellent bar for a door, but a piss-poor flag jack.
[00:37:42] And both agree that the sign on the stopper is why it could not escape.
[00:37:46] So it just isn't scribe so that could literally be anything.
[00:37:49] Yeah, because I don't know how bronze is soft, right?
[00:37:52] Softish.
[00:37:53] He also said two dimensional.
[00:37:56] So less like the two-dimensional representation of a higher dimensional mathematical
[00:38:00] construct.
[00:38:01] But it could have been painted.
[00:38:02] It could have been.
[00:38:03] I thought it was drawn painted.
[00:38:04] I would think that maybe not etched.
[00:38:06] We keep talking about the M4 like it's something special, like a genie's lamp or something.
[00:38:11] But we got to remember that it was initially, initially placed by humans by this, this
[00:38:16] cult.
[00:38:17] So at some point in its life, it had to be a regular M4.
[00:38:20] Right.
[00:38:21] But we don't know if there was some other magic done that turned it into something else
[00:38:26] other than the Elder sign.
[00:38:27] Right.
[00:38:28] We're going to turn to the Elder sign because when you took the Elder sign off of it and
[00:38:31] we still had, and we looked inside of it, it was still empty space.
[00:38:35] Right.
[00:38:36] Question is, well something down to it to make it that way or did the father of war make
[00:38:40] it that way while he was in it?
[00:38:42] Well, judging by the amount of shit that came out of it, he probably didn't make it
[00:38:46] that way while he was in it because it would have had to have been in that state to contain
[00:38:49] the mass of shit that came out of it as operating by the laws of three-dimensional physics.
[00:38:54] Yeah.
[00:38:55] And just to know bronze is hard and brittle until he could crack it.
[00:39:00] Well, our thing is not bronze though.
[00:39:01] Correct.
[00:39:02] I'm just curious what you're doing.
[00:39:04] How are we inscribing it?
[00:39:06] We're waxing poetic about not making decisions.
[00:39:09] Sure.
[00:39:10] Sure.
[00:39:11] Fair enough.
[00:39:12] I mean, that answers my question.
[00:39:14] Honestly, I'm honestly, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're
[00:39:44] words, that.
[00:39:45] It's his interpretation.
[00:39:46] Jeff,
[00:39:47] Yes,
[00:39:48] we're Captain Dan.
[00:39:48] Yep,
[00:39:49] Rose San.
[00:39:53] Fail.
[00:39:54] This guy holds that fail.
[00:39:56] I'll come back to it.
[00:39:57] Okay,
[00:39:58] Probably needed to fail.
[00:39:59] Um,
[00:40:00] Daniel,
[00:40:01] shribble into a husband die
[00:40:06] I just see the guys in the last crusade after he drinks from the wrong
[00:40:14] Cop.
[00:40:15] Joseph.
[00:40:16] Paulie.
[00:40:17] Um, so he's talked about this.
[00:40:20] He's talked about this.
[00:40:21] He's talked about this, right?
[00:40:22] I'm going to steal something but nobody else would Jeff will know about it.
[00:40:24] It's fine.
[00:40:25] Artistic license.
[00:40:26] Um, so Mary Olson sort of sits.
[00:40:29] She's got this in front of her.
[00:40:30] She breathes.
[00:40:31] She picks up the sharpie, right?
[00:40:33] And Captain Dan watches and it's almost like a you begin to see her, her spire and she
[00:40:40] puts the sharpie down to this lid, right?
[00:40:43] And you see her hand is almost hovering over it and kind of moving like she's making
[00:40:48] her repetitive motion.
[00:40:49] She's making a circuit but the marker hasn't touched the surface yet.
[00:40:54] It's a struggle.
[00:40:55] It's like she's fighting to force the sharpie is if there's something in her that's fighting
[00:41:00] putting the sharpie down or something holding her hand back but she's physically trembling
[00:41:04] trying to put this sharpie on top of it.
[00:41:06] Do you want 100 girl?
[00:41:10] 63.
[00:41:10] Okay.
[00:41:11] And the struggle, if it's fighting and she, her breathing intensifies, she's beginning
[00:41:18] to, you can tell the respiration is picking up.
[00:41:22] You feel like her heart is beating out of her chest.
[00:41:24] If this were a movie, you would begin to hear the drums in the low bass picking up,
[00:41:28] bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, you know,
[00:41:29] as a rapid heartbeat.
[00:41:31] And then you see the sharpie strike the surface with concerted effort.
[00:41:37] And it's like she's pushing the only thing that I can compare it to.
[00:41:41] It's like, it's like she's been practicing.
[00:41:43] It's opposite magnets.
[00:41:44] Yeah, opposite magnets is actually a good one too.
[00:41:46] But to me, it's unlike opposite magnets, it's not that the things don't want to go together.
[00:41:51] It's like she can't, what do you want to say?
[00:41:53] The opposite of lift.
[00:41:54] She can't push down the sharpie to the surface.
[00:41:57] I think about bench pressing, right?
[00:42:00] The bar doesn't want to move and like you see the panic in her face because it's like
[00:42:05] a loaded gun.
[00:42:06] It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a packed charge.
[00:42:09] It's gotta go.
[00:42:10] It's not go.
[00:42:11] And that's, that's kind of the panic that's resonating in her.
[00:42:14] It's gotta go.
[00:42:15] It's gotta go.
[00:42:16] And finally once with supreme effort, that sharpie hits.
[00:42:20] It's like this whole time it feels like a storm is rolling in and you can feel the,
[00:42:25] the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
[00:42:28] And then it's like as the pen touches, it's as if the room is a thunder clap and you
[00:42:32] feel something surge.
[00:42:36] Mary's hand, it's like all of a sudden her hand was going, I think of interstellar that
[00:42:40] lovely scene.
[00:42:41] I quote quite often where the planet is moving and the ship's moving up but it's stationary
[00:42:46] and then he flips to match the rotation of the ship and the whole, it's like your stomach
[00:42:50] just drops at that moment.
[00:42:51] So suddenly this whole fight of, I can't get to the pen to the surface.
[00:42:54] I can't get it.
[00:42:55] I can't get it.
[00:42:56] She strikes it and it's like everything suddenly clicks back into place and she's scribbling
[00:43:00] all over this fucking thing like a toddler.
[00:43:03] Like all the motion just keeps going and she can't, she can't stop and she screams and
[00:43:07] just falls back out of the chair and just lays on the floor and begins to twitch.
[00:43:13] Sand for you, D4.
[00:43:16] It was A1.
[00:43:18] Good for you.
[00:43:19] I'll have your old sand again.
[00:43:22] Pass.
[00:43:23] Oh, you lucky shit.
[00:43:25] You lose six sand.
[00:43:27] This married collapses to the floor almost like she's having a seizure.
[00:43:31] That is past my break point.
[00:43:32] Excellent.
[00:43:34] So we can deal with that.
[00:43:36] Ironically, Cabin Dan, you got it.
[00:43:38] You can do this 100%.
[00:43:39] You're a Cabin Dan.
[00:43:40] Here, here.
[00:43:42] Bite on this twig, lady.
[00:43:44] Yeah.
[00:43:45] Cause you're having a fuck.
[00:43:46] What the fuck is the matter with you?
[00:43:47] It's just, it's a grenade.
[00:43:49] Pull the pin, man.
[00:43:50] Frothing at the mouth.
[00:43:52] Screaming loss of two willpower by the way.
[00:43:56] No, sorry.
[00:43:57] It would be four.
[00:43:58] I lost two the last time.
[00:43:59] No, I read the wrong thing.
[00:44:01] Cost of two pow.
[00:44:02] Oh shit.
[00:44:03] Two pow.
[00:44:04] Which is not willpower.
[00:44:05] Oh shit.
[00:44:06] Like, permanently or?
[00:44:08] Yeah.
[00:44:09] That's one of those major statistics.
[00:44:11] That's on the left side, go at it.
[00:44:15] Wait, what?
[00:44:16] Yes, one of the stats went down by two points.
[00:44:19] We were not informed of this.
[00:44:22] Okay, good.
[00:44:24] Make me.
[00:44:25] I love this in the game.
[00:44:26] Fuck it.
[00:44:27] I'm going to, I'm pretty sure it's from Call of Cthulhu, but I, it's not like I played by
[00:44:29] the rules anyway.
[00:44:30] Make me cause I love this rule.
[00:44:32] It's definitely called a clue.
[00:44:33] Make me, um, it by five.
[00:44:37] If Cody loves it, it's no.
[00:44:39] It's Cody loves it.
[00:44:40] It's terrible.
[00:44:41] Jeff knows I'm talking about.
[00:44:42] That's a fail 95 over 75.
[00:44:45] Okay.
[00:44:46] I don't know what I want to do with it yet.
[00:44:48] Jeff would you like to do something as she's having a seizure?
[00:44:50] Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:51] I'll try and help.
[00:44:53] Isn't got any skills for it, but, um, at least finding that damn twig.
[00:44:57] Yeah.
[00:44:58] Uh, your research assistant comes running into the room.
[00:45:01] Oh, you're a tech.
[00:45:02] She's at the museum.
[00:45:03] We're off site.
[00:45:04] I thought she was at the off site.
[00:45:05] No, she's at the museum.
[00:45:07] All right.
[00:45:08] Well, he can just sit there and convulse.
[00:45:09] Oh wow.
[00:45:10] Cody really just wants us to kill the researchers.
[00:45:12] I want to get her involved.
[00:45:14] You guys brought her into the story.
[00:45:15] She's got to show the fuck up sooner or later.
[00:45:17] Yeah, I don't really have anything to help.
[00:45:20] Um, I've got first aid at 10.
[00:45:22] Roll the motherfucking waste.
[00:45:24] Heavy weapons.
[00:45:25] Slap.
[00:45:27] Slap.
[00:45:28] Take your belt off.
[00:45:29] Put it in your team.
[00:45:30] Yeah.
[00:45:31] What was I?
[00:45:32] Oh, it was the fucking, um, the Christmas one we did where we kept joking about slapping
[00:45:36] women.
[00:45:37] I give you an opportunity, Jeff.
[00:45:38] When you were rolling psychotherapy on her, shut up.
[00:45:42] Yeah.
[00:45:43] Damn it.
[00:45:44] I saw this in a movie once.
[00:45:48] I think is what I said.
[00:45:49] Voguey did it.
[00:45:52] Anyway, she stops frothing at the mouth eventually.
[00:45:54] OK, yeah.
[00:45:55] He's trying to like pattern on the shoulder and controller, but there's no idea what to do.
[00:46:03] I do that breaking.
[00:46:05] Really?
[00:46:06] Because that's fun.
[00:46:07] By the way, when your pal goes down, you have to reset your sand.
[00:46:12] Correct.
[00:46:13] Because your sand goes off your power.
[00:46:14] So your sand now goes down.
[00:46:16] No big deal.
[00:46:17] Now, technically he's already under his new max.
[00:46:21] Because his sand would go from his palette from 13 to 11, which takes his max is by five
[00:46:27] from 65 to 55.
[00:46:29] Correct.
[00:46:30] So now your max sand can be 55.
[00:46:32] OK.
[00:46:33] Now you're already underneath.
[00:46:34] You're at 50, right?
[00:46:35] Correct.
[00:46:36] So it need to mark out your 65 max or 60 or whatever it is.
[00:46:40] Well, my max was 99.
[00:46:42] Well, he's saying that the highest you could be would be by five.
[00:46:47] So it'd be 55 instead of 60 now.
[00:46:49] Correct.
[00:46:50] And your new breaking point is your current sand minus your pal, your new pal.
[00:46:53] Correct.
[00:46:54] Current sand is 50 minus my sand minus your pal minus my pal.
[00:46:59] So your new breaking point 39.
[00:47:00] Yeah.
[00:47:01] That's a death fun.
[00:47:02] So breaking point, is it at what a table that we roll on?
[00:47:06] I'm looking at it now to try and decide.
[00:47:08] Oh, OK.
[00:47:09] Usually when you tell, that means it's worse than he thought.
[00:47:12] Yeah.
[00:47:13] Yeah.
[00:47:14] We're going with that one.
[00:47:15] Yeah.
[00:47:16] Why not?
[00:47:18] Now you have a fear of the elder son, Jesus.
[00:47:21] Well, no breaking points normally like fight flight or free freeze or is that a certain
[00:47:24] amount?
[00:47:25] That is if you lose one on one go.
[00:47:27] Breaking points are now disorders.
[00:47:30] Yeah.
[00:47:31] So now she has a disorder which when subjected to applicable triggers comes up and can cause
[00:47:37] subsequent sand losses.
[00:47:39] Do I have an innate fear of flower pots now?
[00:47:42] No, I'm actually going to go with obsession.
[00:47:46] Yes, yes we are.
[00:47:49] Very specifically megalomania.
[00:47:52] So just for Mary's character to explain Mary's situation were the audience and for the
[00:47:57] podcast now whether or not this comes up in the game or remain to be seen you that was
[00:48:03] that was totally worth it because your fundamental understanding of the laws of physics and magic
[00:48:10] and the concept of reality of God of everything just dramatically shifted.
[00:48:15] There was it was like that.
[00:48:17] It was like a powder cake.
[00:48:18] It was so much raw power that you pulled seemingly out of nowhere for very little cost and could
[00:48:24] put it down and could and could put it.
[00:48:28] Yeah, maybe it didn't work but you didn't do it quite right.
[00:48:30] Like he's going to find the right text.
[00:48:32] I can do it better.
[00:48:33] Absolutely.
[00:48:34] 100% you could be fucking God easily.
[00:48:35] Like what it took a little bit from you.
[00:48:36] You know what really makes a lot of sense?
[00:48:39] What's her disorder?
[00:48:40] Using someone else.
[00:48:42] That's brilliant.
[00:48:44] You know like this was a little, this is a little spark but if you could get like 12 volunteers
[00:48:50] 15 volunteers we've already got one like shit you could just you just put this on a
[00:48:55] you could put this on fucking little boy or fat man just drop it on those.
[00:48:58] Why not?
[00:48:59] You put on a quarter drop it from a helicopter because you realize it's not it's
[00:49:03] it's not about the size.
[00:49:04] It's about the power that what you were doing is so exponentially bigger and more powerful
[00:49:10] compared to twiddling your fingers in the air that if you could harness that if you could
[00:49:14] route the electric poles.
[00:49:16] That's why the news of cold.
[00:49:18] If you could like welcome to the game.
[00:49:20] Now because that's her disorder when these subjects come up that's going to be her character
[00:49:25] impetus and she you can look up disorder basically she's gonna have to roll sand and like it
[00:49:31] will trigger that sort of a major motivating fact for Mary would not obviously tell this
[00:49:35] to other people right.
[00:49:36] She's got the revelation and I think it's fun to share with you all because I think
[00:49:39] you all realize that the like you all are rolling personal sand checks which is just as
[00:49:43] much fun to me as rolling to sand checks in the game.
[00:49:46] But yeah no you you're Megalyn Monichold at this point like fuck yeah I like the nine volt
[00:49:52] battery I stuck my finger in the outlet it was great let's do it again.
[00:49:55] No, let's go to training right here.
[00:49:58] Yeah, no let's do it again let's do a bigger baby let's go go bigger go home.
[00:50:05] You know that's perfect.
[00:50:06] That one tab of acid would just great what happens if we drop about six.
[00:50:09] I think that's perfect for Mary because you know what she's burned everything that
[00:50:12] she has in this reality.
[00:50:14] And now she is ready to step through the door.
[00:50:17] She has no bonds.
[00:50:18] Yes damn girl.
[00:50:20] She and she's got ailments she has completely burned herself with everybody in terms of
[00:50:26] Captain Dan.
[00:50:27] Yes, it makes sense.
[00:50:30] You don't know how because that was a shit fucking explanation.
[00:50:33] She literally scribbled like a god damn child screamed and had a seizure.
[00:50:36] You think you can do it like right now.
[00:50:38] You could just lick your finger trace it in the fucking air like you're I don't know god
[00:50:42] damn Merlin and bam it would happen.
[00:50:44] You could do it right the second you know you got it 100%.
[00:50:46] You know what the fuck that was.
[00:50:48] You don't understand it.
[00:50:49] It's like you you learned it's like you learned by watching someone say hey do this and
[00:50:55] then they got horribly injured and you're like yeah I learned the wrong way to do it.
[00:50:59] Like so you're not quite sure because you haven't done it personally but it makes sense
[00:51:02] now the other sign makes sense you could do it.
[00:51:04] That ain't the way to come.
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[00:52:01] Mama told me mama told me mama told me mama told me mama told me mama told me mama told me.
[00:52:08] Let it go.
[00:52:09] We're at the right side.
[00:52:12] Let it go.
[00:52:13] We're at the right side.